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Archive: April 2008


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April 27, 2008
Health Tip #7: Avoid Packages
If you do this exercise, it will change the way you look at food FOREVER!! That’s a mighty big claim, but it’s true. Here’s the Health Tip: Avoid ALL packaged food for three days! The point of this exercise is this: People, which includes you and every member of your family, are meant to eat [...]
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April 27, 2008
Health Tip #6: Take a Hike
Exercise is good for you, but you don’t have to do it “their way.” Too many people join a gym or some other organized institution for exercise and then quit after a few visits. The problem is that exercise, with all the flashy clothes, celebrity DVDs, home equipment and grandmas in boxing gloves, has become [...]
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April 26, 2008
Garlic in the Arteries
by Vic Shayne, PhD Can garlic clean out blocked arteries. Some researchers say YES! Natural health care, as an industry, is replete with misinformation and shady science. You have to be careful about what you read. We’d like to believe that some exotic tropical juice can cure cancer, but it’s best to make your decisions [...]
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April 24, 2008
Six Ways Help Your Bad Lower Back
by Vic Shayne, PhD Back problems — especially lower back pains — are among the top health complaints in the United States. Nobody is completely sure why this is, but it’s possibly from one or more of the following — overweight conditions, sports injuries, incorrect lifting, poor posture, spinal injury, disc problems, bad sleep, poor [...]
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April 22, 2008
Six Ways to Relieve Stress Now
Stress. There is no way to live without it, only to lessen its degree. It’s everywhere you turn, coming from work, spouses, children, in-laws, finances, health and even stuff that just doesn’t work right! Plus, stress is cumulative; it piles up on us. Some doctors go so far to say that stress is the major [...]
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April 21, 2008
Eating Flowers
A number of animals eat flowers. What do they know that we don’t? Certain flowers have been shown to contain important nutrients. Others are poisonous. If you have varicose veins or hemorrhoids, or any kind of circulatory problem, pay close attention… One of the least known nutritious flowers is the wild pansy. It’s one of [...]
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April 20, 2008
Eat Your Carrots, Harold!
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — Carrots are high in beta carotene, a component of vitamin A, which is critical to normal vision. It’s no coincidence that in countries where rice is a dietary staple but carrots and other sources of the vitamin are scarce, poor vision is common. But before you chuck your old [...]
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April 20, 2008
Colon Cancer Responds to Grape Seed Extract
Chemicals found in grape seeds significantly inhibited growth of colorectal tumors in both cell cultures and in mice, according to researchers who have already demonstrated the extract’s anti-cancer effects in other tumor types. Their study, published in the October 18 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, documented a 44 percent reduction of advanced colorectal tumors in [...]
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April 19, 2008
Nutrients for Blood Vessels & Eyes
FROM DRUGDIGEST.ORG — Proanthocyanidins are also believed to block the deterioration of blood vessels. Therefore, grape seed extract may improve conditions involving veins and arteries. It has been used to prevent, delay, and treat a condition known as chronic venous insufficiency, which occurs when valves in the veins that carry blood back to the heart [...]
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April 18, 2008
What's Worse, Bacteria or Anti-Bacteria Soap?
Since the medical profession went ape over the idea of bacteria as public enemy number one, we’ve been inundated with an anti-bacteria frenzy. Bacteria gets blamed for everything, from the common cold to food poisoning to the bird flu to skin diseases. Armed with the fear of bacteria mindset, a host of chemicals have been [...]
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